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What does your email address say about you?

Posted on 27 July 2011 and filed under articles, Best Of, comments, main, technology

Last week, I was biking from downtown up to the university. At one intersection, I saw someone I know driving and gave a wave. I passed someone else waiting at a bus stop, and had a brief chat. Then in the parking lot of the university, a third acquaintance and another brief exchange. The last […]

Posted on 26 July 2011 and filed under ideas, personal

This morning on Daybreak North we played an interview and live performance from the Arbitrarys. This is a band I’ve been covering back since my days at Over the Edge, but it’s the first time we’ve had them on CBC. It could be the last, too, since they’re about to relocate to eastern Canada. They’ve […]

Posted on 21 July 2011 and filed under articles, Prince George

I want a new personal business card. Here’s my first draft:

Posted on 20 July 2011 and filed under personal

Thesis: Google+ comments are primarily noise, Twitter’s lack of “comments” are a built in filter. I feel like I’ve written about internet things too much lately, and I actually had something else queued up, but this is frankly more interesting to me right now. It’s also timely. It’s about Google+. Feel free to leave if […]

Posted on 18 July 2011 and filed under articles, ideas, social media

So it sounds like Spotify is coming to the United States. If you are neither a music geek nor a tech geek, you may not know what this is. Basically, it’s an on-demand music streaming service– think Netflix for music. I have no idea if Spotify’s American availability will translate to Canada. If Last.fm, Pandora, […]

Posted on 13 July 2011 and filed under articles, music

This isn’t really a post, just an apology to those of you reading this via a feed subscription. For whatever reason my feed stopped transferring through feedburner. I think I *may* have fixed it, but it may also have republished a bunch of old items out of order. Hopefully this is a one time thing, […]

Posted on 12 July 2011 and filed under meta

Earlier this week, I was doing a story on a “Tweet Up.”  That’s when a bunch of Twitter users who may have never met each other in person get together for face-to-face conversations. They’ve been around for a while but are new to Prince George (this was the second one as far as anyone seems […]

Posted on 10 July 2011 and filed under articles, social media

I haven’t used Google+ yet. It’s a new social network created by Google. There are a wide variety of reasons Google wants to do this, which you can find using a quick Google search (ha!) but suffice it to say they are at least somewhat threatened by the success of Twitter, Tumblr, and especially Facebook […]

Posted on 2 July 2011 and filed under articles, social media

In yesterday’s edition of the Prince George Free Press the opinions page had a section called “Tweets in P.G.” (I’d link but there doesn’t appear to be a digital version). They reprinted some of their favourite Tweets on a variety of subjects affecting Prince George. It’s a fun idea, and one I’d actually like to […]

Posted on 2 July 2011 and filed under articles, journalism, media, Prince George, social media

It’s Canada Day. I don’t have anything new for you, but I’d like to share some of my past writing on Canada that people have liked. My most popular blog post of all time was this piece from last year called “How Independent Music Helped Transform A Nation.” It’s my theory that Canadian content rules […]

Posted on 1 July 2011 and filed under articles, Canada

I am not a writer. Which is odd, since I spend a good portion of my time being paid for my writing. But the type of writing I do for radio is “get in, get out, and let the guest tell the story.” There is a skill to it, and there are people who do […]

Posted on 30 June 2011 and filed under articles, personal

I have no idea how I came across it, but a couple of days ago I read Cities and Ambition by Paul Graham (Kindles are made for essays, by the way). In it, Graham argues that cities (or at least great cities) send a message. He writes: New York tells you, above all: you should […]

Posted on 24 June 2011 and filed under articles, comments, Prince George

Just over a year ago, I posted this picture: That’s the transition point off of a highway, one of the highest-traffic sections in Prince George. The bike lane is– well, a yellow sign encouraging motorists to share the road. There is nothing else, not even a white line. Earlier this year, I posted this picture: […]

Posted on 22 June 2011 and filed under articles, bikes, comments

I have been blogging off and on since 2007. It started as many blogs do– an unfocused, sporadic journal about my own life and subjects– mostly music– that caught my fancy. I blogged regularly while living in China, mostly as a means to vent (it can be a tough country to adjust to). Upon returning […]

Posted on 22 June 2011 and filed under articles, comments, meta, personal